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Pure Lands in Asian texts and contexts : an anthology / edited by Georgios T. Halkias and Richard K. Payne.

Contributor(s): Halkias, Georgios, 1967- [editor.] | Payne, Richard K [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Pure Land Buddhist studies: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]Description: x, 795 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780824873097; 0824873092Subject(s): Pure Land Buddhism -- Literary collections -- Translations into EnglishLOC classification: BQ8514 | .P87 2019Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ritual practices. The consecration scripture spoken by the Buddha on being reborn in whichever of the Pure Lands of the ten directions you wish / Ryan Richard Overbey -- Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban's thought / Anna Andreeva -- Akṣhobhya Homa : fire offerings for the Buddha of the eastern Pure Land / Richard K. Payne -- Nenbutsu practice in Genshin's Ōjōyōshū / Robert F. Rhodes -- Visions of the Pure Land from the mind treasury of Namchö Migyur Dorje / Georgios T. Halkias -- Contemplative visualizations. Liberating desire : an esoteric Pure Land text by Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna / Georgios T. Halkias -- Maitreya's Tuṣita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa forms of Tibetan Buddhism / James B. Apple -- Amoghavajra's Amitāyus ritual manual / Thomas Eijō Dreitlein -- Dōhan's Compendium on the secret contemplation of Buddha, fascicle one / Aaron P. Proffitt -- Doctrinal expositions. Answers to forty-eight questions about Pure Land (selections) / Charles B. Jones -- The role of Buddhism in emperor worship / Fabio Rambelli -- "The future of American Buddhism" / Michihiro Ama -- Naikan's path / Clark Chilson -- Wŏnhyo's Commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra / Richard D. Mcbride II -- Life-writing and poetry. Biographies from The accounts of those from Mount Kōya who have attained birth in a Pure Land / Ethan Lindsay -- Contemporary Pure Land miracle tales / Natasha Heller -- In praise of his mighty name : a Tibetan poem on Amitābha from Dunhuang / Jonathan A. Silk -- Pure Land devotional poetry by a Chan Monk / Natasha Heller -- Ethical and aesthetic explications. Religion and ethics in the thought of Kiyozawa Manshi / Jacques Fasan -- The Pure Land and this world in Hishiki Masaharu's Shin Buddhist ethics / Ugo Dessi -- Toward a Pure Land Buddhist aesthetics : Yanagi Sōetsu on the vow of non-discrimination between beauty and ugliness / Elisabetta Porcu -- A Confucian Pure Land? : Longshu's Treatise on Pure Land by Wang Rixiu / Daniel Getz -- Tanaka Chigaku on "The age of unification" / Jacqueline I. Stone -- Worlds beyond Sukhavati. The divine scripture on the rebirth in the Pure Land of the highest cavern mystery of numinous treasure / Henrik H. Soørensen -- A Manichaean Pure Land : the Buddhicized description of the realm of light in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnscroll / Gábor Kósa -- Śambhala as a Pure Land / Vesna A. Wallace.

Ritual practices. The consecration scripture spoken by the Buddha on being reborn in whichever of the Pure Lands of the ten directions you wish / Ryan Richard Overbey -- Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban's thought / Anna Andreeva -- Akṣhobhya Homa : fire offerings for the Buddha of the eastern Pure Land / Richard K. Payne -- Nenbutsu practice in Genshin's Ōjōyōshū / Robert F. Rhodes -- Visions of the Pure Land from the mind treasury of Namchö Migyur Dorje / Georgios T. Halkias -- Contemplative visualizations. Liberating desire : an esoteric Pure Land text by Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna / Georgios T. Halkias -- Maitreya's Tuṣita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa forms of Tibetan Buddhism / James B. Apple -- Amoghavajra's Amitāyus ritual manual / Thomas Eijō Dreitlein -- Dōhan's Compendium on the secret contemplation of Buddha, fascicle one / Aaron P. Proffitt -- Doctrinal expositions. Answers to forty-eight questions about Pure Land (selections) / Charles B. Jones -- The role of Buddhism in emperor worship / Fabio Rambelli -- "The future of American Buddhism" / Michihiro Ama -- Naikan's path / Clark Chilson -- Wŏnhyo's Commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra / Richard D. Mcbride II -- Life-writing and poetry. Biographies from The accounts of those from Mount Kōya who have attained birth in a Pure Land / Ethan Lindsay -- Contemporary Pure Land miracle tales / Natasha Heller -- In praise of his mighty name : a Tibetan poem on Amitābha from Dunhuang / Jonathan A. Silk -- Pure Land devotional poetry by a Chan Monk / Natasha Heller -- Ethical and aesthetic explications. Religion and ethics in the thought of Kiyozawa Manshi / Jacques Fasan -- The Pure Land and this world in Hishiki Masaharu's Shin Buddhist ethics / Ugo Dessi -- Toward a Pure Land Buddhist aesthetics : Yanagi Sōetsu on the vow of non-discrimination between beauty and ugliness / Elisabetta Porcu -- A Confucian Pure Land? : Longshu's Treatise on Pure Land by Wang Rixiu / Daniel Getz -- Tanaka Chigaku on "The age of unification" / Jacqueline I. Stone -- Worlds beyond Sukhavati. The divine scripture on the rebirth in the Pure Land of the highest cavern mystery of numinous treasure / Henrik H. Soørensen -- A Manichaean Pure Land : the Buddhicized description of the realm of light in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnscroll / Gábor Kósa -- Śambhala as a Pure Land / Vesna A. Wallace.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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